Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-19

The Great New York Strike Going to
Pieces. The Green Hands Put to Work
by the Companies Becoming Competent
WOrkmen.
NEW York, February S.-The time
that has elapsed since the long
shOremen and freight handlers quit work
enabled the railroad and steamship com pan
les to select men sufficient to keep freight
moving along. Besides, many of the old
freight handlers and IongshOremen are
coming back to work.
The union bOatmen who struck because
they would not handle "scab" coal, although
they were sati fed with the price paid them,
% cents ton, are weakening. They hesitate
to abandon the cause of the strikers, but the
70 cents a ton now offered is so tempting that
those who own the boats compromise by
making out bills of sale of boats to a friend.
That friend goes to the companies and offers
TO transport the coal at the ruling rates.
Their offers have mostly been refused, the
mpanies prererrlng as long as they have
got TO pay eXOrbianG rates to pay them to
the outside lOngshoremen. Union No. 1
met in Brooklyn last night. About 300 men
were present. They were decidedly in favor
! of continuing the fight. Older men, however,
! express the conviction that the men would
/ have to 90 back before Thursday.
NEW YORK, February S.-EEcept for the
number of lODgshOremen standing idle on
/ the corners Of the streets along the river,
! the fronts have assumed almost their normal
| appearance. Though 1t requires larger
number of men to do the work now than
/ formerly, the steamboat and railroad per
| managers all claim business is as good as
before the strike, and that freight is being
moved with the greatest facility. The steam
| ers now leave at the advertised time, and the
/ jam of freight on the railroad piers no
/ longer exists. The question of calling ont
I the knights of Labor on the Reading road
1 is stil open, and may be ordered within two
/ days, COrbin's offer of compromise having
! been refused. The Knights insist on a gen
/ eral settlement, and intimate that a new
/ strike will soon be taken to bring it about
l The striking tOngshOremen employed by
4 the Ward steamship Inc returned to work
/ to day at the old terms.
For two hours this morning West street
/ from the battery to Cortland street was
/ TANNED with truck loads of merchandise.
| On the Pennsylvania, Jersey central, Metro
| politan d Boston and Delaware & Lacka-
wanna piers immense amounts of freight
were received which had been delayed
through the operations of tine strike.
| The new men are all doing well. The
strikers stand around watching them
| Most of them, in conversation, admit that
I they would be glad to get work. The super
intendent said that ne had not taken any of
/ the old hands back, He said that
( old hands were on the corner near by wait
! ing to be asked to go back TO fWOrk, but he
/ EOuld not take them back. Those who were
taken back made individual applications.
| Nearly 200 were hired. Agent Borden, of
/ the Pennsylvania line, was approached by
some beach walkers and asked if he would
/ take back the union men in case the strike
was declared of. He refused to recognize
I the union in any way. He said the strikers
| left without any grievances and could never
/ come back. He had no doubt they were
/ willing to return as many were around in
/ their working clothes, apparently ready to
/ take any chance. La his opinion the back
I bone of the strike was broken. At another
/ pier there are plenty Of men at work and
l many more are asking for places.
/ JERSEY CITY, February S.--Many of the
| strikers here are applying to be taken back